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Arizona football: Wildcats hire Marcel Yates as defensive coordinator

Rich Rodriguez has seemingly made major upgrades to the Arizona Wildcats defensive coaching staff this offseason, and he added to it by hiring Boise State Broncos defensive coordinator Marcel Yates to the same position.

Yates gets 2 year contract at Arizona for 530k per year about a 200k per year raise.

— Jeff Caves (@JeffCaves) January 18, 2016

As we wrote on Friday, Yates had tremendous success in his two years as Boise State's defensive coordinator, especially when it comes to stopping teams on third down and in the red zone.